I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so…

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

— Zadie Smith

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily…

— Bobby Farrelly

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

— Bobby Farrelly

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.”

— Stacia Kane

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for…

— Anthony Horowitz

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

— Charles Churchill

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were…

— Christopher Darden

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying…

— William S. Burroughs

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so…

— James Salter

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with…

— Antony Beevor

I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once…

— Bradley Cooper

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort